CARE Ethiopia is a Humanitarian International non Governmental Organization working in Ethiopia since 1984 implementing relief and multi-sectoral development projects. Currently it has over 500 staff working in five rural field offices (West Hararghe, East Hararghe, Awash, south Gonder and Borena) and three urban office (Bahir Dar, Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa).
CARE is looking for an individual who wants to join a dynamic team, dedicated to alleviating poverty. “CARE Ethiopia Mission is to work with poor families, communities and institutions to have a significant impact o the underlying cause of poverty.”
To: All interested and qualified employees
From: Human Resources, CARE Ethiopia
Date: November 27, 2014
Vacancy No. 075/14
I. Position: Project Team Leader
II. Salary: USD 748 and other benefit packages
III. Place of Work: East Hararghe FO (Fedis Woreda)
IV. Closing Date: December 7, 2014 V. Number of vacant posts: 1 (one) VI. Term of employment: Regular status VII. Duty starting date: Immediately
VIII. Job function
The purpose of the Project Team Leader (WTL) position is to provide overall leadership, coordination and supervision of developmental interventions and staff in the Woreda. S/he ensures Government and CARE’s project implementation; monitoring, evaluation guidelines and plans are followed in the woredas to effectively contribute to the achievement of project results and CARE's strategic objectives to address underlying causes of poverty and food insecurity, and gender inequality. S/he will be responsible for following-up on operational planning, targeting, resource mobilization, gender, community-based action planning, preparedness, early warning. The WTL also establishes and maintains effective working relationships with government and non-government partners working in the Woreda.
II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
Facilitates and ensures that the plan at woreda/PA/village level is prepared with full participation of the community and partners;
Ensures that planning and implementation of the project activities are in accordance with the program principles, approaches, and procedures of the organization;
Ensures targeting for project beneficiaries are made in participatory manner;
Works closely with woreda partners in planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of the project activities;
Makes sure that community facilitators have their plans broken down to annual, quarterly and weekly basis and same is done by other staff members;
Supports the development of PA level plan including the activities of health, nutrition and food security projects as being the integral part of the overall plan at PA level;
Supports and facilitates the woreda plan to include CARE's projects plan and thoroughly understood and be accountable for the overall implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the projects;
Ensures that the project activities are implemented according to the technical specification set together with partners and time schedule and also within the limit of the planned budget;
Ensures that the project’s capacity building activities are implemented in line with the felt need and demand of the users and address the set objectives;
Ensures that gender issues are properly addressed during the process of the project planning and implementation;
Ensures that policy learning and advocacy related to women empowerment are incorporated at all levels of the projects’ planning and implementation and from woreda to PA/village level;
Conducts performance review and appraisal of the employees under his/her supervision according to the policy of the organization.
Supports and coordinates needs assessment, woreda partners, PA and village level community institutions, for the capacity building in relation to the projects implementation strategies, methodologies, and activities;
Organizes and facilitates joint participatory monitoring programs with the woreda partners and community groups, both technical and management bodies, document lessons and provide feedback to the project office;
Facilitates and encourages regular review meeting and project review schedules at woreda level and help the different institutions have it institutionalized commitment;
Supports and build the capacity of the front line staffs to have deeper understanding of the different technical areas of the projects, participatory monitoring and evaluation, cross cutting issues and including community empowerment, program approach and right based approach;
Conducts regular review meetings with the project staff and record lessons and provide feedback to the participants and to the project;
Together with the project staffs and partners sets project quality standards and action steps and monitor the performance accordingly;
Conducts regular supervision and closely work with the field workers on site;
Ensures that the allocated resources are timely mobilized and properly used on the site;
Makes sure that all project resources go to the appropriate and needy targeted community members with all the required quantity and quality;
Resolve technical problems/and other issues that field workers and partners face with in his/her capacity and if not report to the relevant technical/management staffs for support.
Establishes firm and institutionalized working relationship with local officials, community institutions and other stake holders;
Prepares regular project progress up dates at woreda level and discuss with representatives of the woreda;
Represents CARE at Woreda level as required;
Ensures that organizational core values, policies, procedures and program approaches are clearly understood and adhered to in the daily functioning of the Woreda office and that information to monitor project progress and organizational performance, including M & E data are collected and used for organizational learning, decision making, reporting, and for promoting innovations;
Develops appropriate reporting formats together with the LDM and other relevant technical staffs;
Collects monthly and quarterly performance reports from relevant project staffs;
Checks and confirm the correctness of the reported activities;
Prepare monthly, quarterly and final reports for the project and submit to the Project Manager. The report has to include the detail descriptions, challenges, problems faced and lessons learned in the reporting period.
Supervises all project staffs, give technical and management support;
Support the development of high performing teams at the woreda and ensures that appropriate procedures and policies are followed.
The Team Leader will be responsible for ensuring that gender equality and diversity values are upheld in the recruitment, orientation, performance assessment and management of staff.
Make sure that staff are mainstreaming gender organizationally and programmatically in their APOs.
Make sure that male and female employees of the organization receive equal treatment, opportunities and responsibilities.
Enforce the sexual harassment policy and the gender and diversity policy.
IV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Required:
B.A Degree in Agriculture, Economics, Sociology, Agricultural Extension, Health Science or other related fields
B) EXPERIENCE: Required:
5 years experience in community participatory project implementation or related activities.
C) TECHNICAL SKILLS
Required:
Supervisory skill;
Computer proficiency;
Good communication and report writing skill;
Knowledge of local Language;
Familiarity/training in participatory extension approach;
Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.
COMPETENCIES
Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnerships, stress tolerance, building commitment, coaching, interpersonal skill, operational decision-making, planning and organizing, information monitoring.
Interested and qualified applicants should send their applications & CVs ONLY with supervisor's recommendation to Human Resources Department. Other documents will be submitted as per request. As usual FO Area Administration Heads/Admin and Finance officers are kindly requested to advice on details of requirements and responsibilities of the position to